- Haiti: Pol arrested on terror financing, conspiracy charges
Source: ABC News
“Authorities say they have arrested Haitian legislator Arnel Belizaire, who faces charges including financing terrorism and conspiracy against state security. … Haiti’s National Police made the announcement late Sunday, ending a hunt for the well-known lawmaker, who was first accused around two months ago. Belizaire previously characterized the arrest warrant against him as political intimidation. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. Belizaire had registered his new political party late last week for the upcoming general election.” (03/16/26)
- Trump Regime Asks Judge to Revisit Ruling Blocking Subpoenas to Fed’s Powell
Source: US News & World Report
“President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that has effectively blocked a criminal investigation into U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents made public on Monday. Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a ruling unsealed on Friday blocked subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors in January seeking information about cost overruns in renovations at the Fed’s headquarters and Powell’s testimony to Congress last year about the project. Boasberg concluded that prosecutors had improperly issued the subpoenas, saying a ‘mountain of evidence’ suggests the investigation — as Powell has argued — was intended to pressure the Fed chair to rapidly lower interest rates or resign as chair. The Justice Department in a new filing urged Boasberg to revisit his decision.” (03/16/26)
- Non-Intervention Without the Fairy Tale of Sovereignty
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thiago VS Coelho‘Humanitarian intervention’ sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster. Many libertarians respond with a familiar reply: non-intervention, because aggression against another nation is wrong. In his essay on Aggression Abroad, Jason Lee Byas’s point is that this reply often rests on a category mistake. If you take libertarianism seriously — if you really mean that only individuals have rights and only individuals can be wronged — then you can’t smuggle in a moral right called national sovereignty and treat states as if they’re rights-bearing persons. … So far, so interventionist: if sovereignty is a fiction, why not invade to stop atrocities? Because the same individualism that dissolves the sovereignty myth also destroys the interventionist fantasy of ‘surgical’ war.” (03/16/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/non-intervention-without-fairy-tale-sovereignty
- The War Without an Exit: Why Quick Victories in Iran Are Illusions
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jenny Williams“The notion of a short and decisive war has always been a temptation for politicians. This notion holds a promise of quick victories, low costs, and clear triumphs. However, the course of history over the last few decades has indicated that wars do not always follow this pattern. The current conflict between the United States and Iran seems to be a clear manifestation of this reality, as the early indications of a quick victory are not supported by the fundamental realities of the conflict.” (03/16/26)
- Remembering Brian Doherty, Chronicler of and Participant in Wild and Wonderful Subcultures
Source: Reason
by Nick Gillespie“Jesus, how do you write an obit of someone you hired? It is with a heavy heart but many, many fond memories and intense gratitude that I write about my colleague Brian Doherty, found dead unexpectedly on Friday at the age of 57. I joined Reason in the fall of 1993. He was hired later in 1994 and then left the staff for a while around the end of the decade. When I became editor in chief of the magazine and website in 2000, he was the first person I called. Come back, I said, Reason needs you. What I liked most about Brian was his abiding interest in things happening on the margins of American culture, politics, and thought, and his deep appreciation for the prodigious bounty that markets deliver reliably and without moralizing.” (03/16/26)
- Mini Tacos, Murder, and the Problem of Getting Exactly What We Want
Source: Liberalism.org
by Sarah Skwire“When personalization is king and optimization is everywhere, fiction has lessons about where to stop.” (03/16/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/mini-tacos-murder-and-the-problem-of-getting-exactly-what-we-want
- Why are school board members afraid to speak?
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sheridan Macy“Gail Nazarene, an elected school board member in New Jersey, thought she was performing her duties as a public servant and participating in the democratic process when she asked her constituents about tax increases on Facebook. This simple act led to an ethics complaint by another school board member because, unlike most other states, New Jersey interprets its school ethics rules to potentially cover any speech that’s merely about schools, supposedly because community members are likely to attribute any such statement from a board member as being on behalf of the board. But the First Amendment forbids the government from punishing school board members for speaking their minds on public issues. That’s why FIRE is suing New Jersey on Nazarene’s behalf.” (03/16/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/why-are-school-board-members-afraid-speak
- How the Past Whispers to the Present in Iran
Source: TomDispatch
by Alfred W McCoy“In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: ‘History never repeats itself, but the… present often seems to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.’ Among the ‘antique legends’ most helpful in understanding the likely outcome of the current U.S. intervention in Iran is the Suez Crisis of 1956, which I describe in my new book Cold War on Five Continents. After Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956, a joint British-French armada of six aircraft carriers destroyed Egypt’s air force, while Israeli troops smashed Egyptian tanks in the sands of the Sinai Peninsula. Within less than a week of war, Nasser had lost his strategic forces and Egypt seemed helpless before the overwhelming might of that massive imperial juggernaut.” (03/15/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/imperial-decline-in-the-straits-of-hormuz/
- Trump’s FDA is breaking promises to kids like mine
Source: USA Today
by Angelina Olivera“President Donald Trump has already said that families deserve a voice in life-and-death medical decisions. Duchenne families are simply asking that this principle be carried through in practice.” (03/16/26)
- It still doesn’t look like there’s an AI bubble
Source: Understanding AI
by Timothy B Lee“Last fall, a lot of people were worried about a possible AI bubble. AI companies were investing heavily in infrastructure because they expected huge demand for AI services in the coming years. For example, an internal OpenAI document last fall projected that revenue would more than double — from $13 billion in 2025 to $30 billion in 2026. Around the same time, Anthropic expected revenue to triple from $4.7 billion in 2025 to more than $15 billion in 2026. Skeptics didn’t believe companies this large could grow so quickly. But the last few months haven’t gone the way they expected.” (03/16/26)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/it-still-doesnt-look-like-theres
- “Parental Rights” and the Authoritarian Family
Source: Liberal Currents
by Steve Kennedy“For advocates of ‘parental rights,’ family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.” (03/16/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rights-and-the-authoritarian-family/
- My Enemies Are Not In Iran
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra. My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with the help of my tax dollars. My enemies are the tyrants who are turning our civilization into a mind-controlled dystopia where it is increasingly illegal to criticize the abuses of my government and its allies, and increasingly difficult to find information which runs counter to the imperial narrative. My enemies are the empire apologists and the hasbarists. The propagandists and spinmeisters. Those who side with Israel and the United States against basic human interests. Imperial bootlickers always accuse me of writing ‘propaganda’ for ‘the enemy,’ with ‘enemy’ meaning whoever the US-centralized empire happens to be attacking or preparing to attack on any given day.” (03/16/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/16/my-enemies-are-not-in-iran/
- Money Still Matters
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alex J Pollock“The failure of pandemic-era forecasting calls for a return to monetary basics.” (03/16/26)
- Trump’s War is the Worst Conceived in American History
Source: The Contrarians
by Jennifer Rubin“General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Donald Trump that an attack on Iran would provoke its closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Every president contemplating war in the Middle East has known this and therefore avoided a full regional war. But Trump said he knew better and plunged into war. Of course, Trump was wrong — monumentally, predictably, and inexcusably wrong. Now, the Strait is mined and closed, the war rages out of control, oil prices have spiked, and the economy is teetering.” (03/16/26)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-war-is-the-worst-conceived
- EconTalk, 03/16/26
Source: EconTalk
“The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger).” (03/16/26)
- Reason Roundtable, 03/16/26
Source: Reason
“Why the Media Pushes Public Health Myths.” (03/16/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/03/16/why-the-media-pushes-public-health-myths/
- The Tucker Carlson Show, 03/16/26
Source: The Tucker Carlson Show
“Glenn Greenwald: Iran War Updates, False Flags, and Netanyahu’s Plot to Imprison Americans.” (03/16/26)